James Harper wrote, sometime around 29/04/06 06:11: > Is anyone doing this now? Would there be any value in developing an fd > module specifically to back up these databases?
I do backups of MS SQL 2000 to files and then gzip them (reduces the backups to about 10% of their original size). Doing this, I keep about a week's worth of backups on the disk, which are all backed up every night. It's worked well for over a year now. I have this little shell script to handle gzipping the files and pruning the them when they get too old. I wrote it to use Cygwin, but it would probably be better written in perl or python etc. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backupmgr.sh
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